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In another show of confidence in combining cancer immunotherapies with checkpoint inhibitors, Aduro Biotech is teaming up with Bristol-Myers Squibb to test its GVAX and CRS-207 for pancreatic cancer with Opdivo, BMS' PD-1 drug.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, have used electrical fields to deliver chemotherapy drugs to difficult tumors, and the small electrical charges have shown in animal tests to drive the therapies deep into solid tumors that were once hard to reach.

Pancreatic cancer has long loomed as one of the most aggressive killers, typically leaving patients with a poor prognosis and specialists with few options for effective treatment. But now a team at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor says they have new reason to believe that a particular gene is responsible for the fast-spreading cancer--offering a clear target for drug developers.

Aduro BioTech joined the short list companies outside Big Pharma to pick up the FDA's coveted breakthrough therapy designation, impressing the agency with strong mid-stage results for its combo cancer therapy.

Patients with pancreatic cancer whose disease still persists after regular treatments may benefit from a new cancer drug nanoliposome formulation, according to a presentation at the European Society for Molecular Oncology's 16th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer.

Halozyme is back on track with a midstage trial of its in-development pancreatic cancer treatment after the FDA lifted its clinical hold on enrollment, news that sent the company's shares up as much as 20%.

Are you healthy? Do you have pancreatic cancer, pancreatitis or pancreatic cysts? In early testing, Texas researchers successfully used four blood biomarkers that aided in early-stage diagnosis to help tell the difference.